About
Dima Yanovsky is a student at MIT expected to graduate in 2025.
Dima Yanovsky @yanovskyd
4/4 We currently have 5 Apple Vision Pros, which means our throughput is roughly 40 hours of teleoperation data per day. This means we can collect more data per day than any existing open dataset in this category has ever collected. Here's how we did it: https://t.co/6EzATqUQXl https://t.co/hp06GXTfl7
Aug 21, 2025 Β· β₯ 11
Dima Yanovsky @yanovskyd
3/4 Not having those kinds of resources, we built an interface to teleoperate bimanual Shadow Hands in Apple Vision Pro. Robotics always starts with failure, so we spent weeks failing over and over again until we got the setup running smoothly at 30Hz.
Aug 21, 2025 Β· β₯ 10
Dima Yanovsky @yanovskyd
2/4 Many things in robotics are hard, but some are insanely hard. Collecting large datasets of dextrous manipulation is the latter. If we wanted to collect a dataset using real two Shadow Hands (one of the most dexterous hands in the world) we'd have to spend $200K+ on hardware. https://t.co/xJiXuVGFPS
Aug 21, 2025 Β· β₯ 5
Founder at ProxYC F25
Intro paths
Dima went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Prox's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Dima can intro founders to Prox's investors below.
Prox's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Prox
